Improving your Primary Choir - Led by Nicola Atkins

Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017, 13:00 - 16:00

Venue: NSPCC, 3 Gilmour Cl, Leicester LE4 1EZ

Price:£75.00 Per Attendee

To provide activities and ideas to improve the quality of singing in your choir

Course descriptionThis course will look at a range of activities and ideas to move your choir to the next stage. Areas to be looked at will include

Making the most of your rehearsal time

Improving the tone of your singers,

Repertoire that challenges

Tips for teaching tricky bits.

Course Leader: Nicola AtkinsNicola Atkins trained at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music before moving to London and working as a session singer on several film and TV sound tracks, singing as a soloist and in professional choirs. She went on to train as a primary school teacher and then to specialise as a singing leader, conducting youth and children's choirs. She was the Singing Strategy Co-ordinator for Warwickshire Music Hub prior to becoming the Singing Development Leader for Leicestershire in 2015. She continues to sing regularly with the Armonico Consort and other chamber choirs as well as running a community choir in the village she lives in.